Jimmy Lewis
@jameslewisva.bsky.social
Healthcare advocate by day; progressive community advocate by night. Ex-Hill staffer; healthcare, manufacturing & nonproliferation wonk.
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Speaker Johnson sent the House into recess early yesterday despite all the urgent work that needs our attention, because he was afraid to let the House vote on whether to consider impeachment of Pete Hegseth.
For the record, had that vote happened I would have voted YES.
For the record, had that vote happened I would have voted YES.
September 17, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Speaker Johnson sent the House into recess early yesterday despite all the urgent work that needs our attention, because he was afraid to let the House vote on whether to consider impeachment of Pete Hegseth.
For the record, had that vote happened I would have voted YES.
For the record, had that vote happened I would have voted YES.
The ASCP policy team attended this week's House @energycommerce.bsky.social hearing on a long list of health bills, including HR3164, which ensures older adults can access testing & treatment for respiratory diseases at their local pharmacies.
September 17, 2026 at 2:38 PM
The ASCP policy team attended this week's House @energycommerce.bsky.social hearing on a long list of health bills, including HR3164, which ensures older adults can access testing & treatment for respiratory diseases at their local pharmacies.
Amazing day at the National Health Council's Washington Representatives Summer Meeting discussing healthcare policies that puts patients first!
June 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Amazing day at the National Health Council's Washington Representatives Summer Meeting discussing healthcare policies that puts patients first!
Did you know that GLP-1 medications have their scientific root in Gila monster venom?
The outcomes of primary research are rarely known; we never know where the next breakthrough will be found.
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a714...
The outcomes of primary research are rarely known; we never know where the next breakthrough will be found.
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a714...
The Deadly Venom Behind Ozempic—and Why the Miracle Drug Should Have Never Worked
The breakthrough that led to today’s GLP-1 boom started in a highly unlikely place.
www.popularmechanics.com
May 28, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Did you know that GLP-1 medications have their scientific root in Gila monster venom?
The outcomes of primary research are rarely known; we never know where the next breakthrough will be found.
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a714...
The outcomes of primary research are rarely known; we never know where the next breakthrough will be found.
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a714...
The Potomac River was just named the most endangered US river by @americanrivers.bsky.social because the recent sewer spill and the "rapid, unchecked" growth of data centers in the region.
www.travelandleisure.com/most-endange...
www.travelandleisure.com/most-endange...
A New Report Reveals the Most Endangered Rivers Across the United States
A new ranking highlights waterways at risk from pollution, mining, and drought. Several rivers across the U.S. face threats from pollution, drought, and industrial projects.
www.travelandleisure.com
May 14, 2026 at 5:09 PM
The Potomac River was just named the most endangered US river by @americanrivers.bsky.social because the recent sewer spill and the "rapid, unchecked" growth of data centers in the region.
www.travelandleisure.com/most-endange...
www.travelandleisure.com/most-endange...
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Our America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2026 report is live!
Data centers, pollution, logging, and mining – These 10 rivers are at a tipping point, facing an urgent decision in the coming months.
📲 Learn more & support this year's list: mostendangeredrivers.org?utm_campaign...
Data centers, pollution, logging, and mining – These 10 rivers are at a tipping point, facing an urgent decision in the coming months.
📲 Learn more & support this year's list: mostendangeredrivers.org?utm_campaign...
April 14, 2026 at 1:55 PM
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Our America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2026 report is live!
Data centers, pollution, logging, and mining – These 10 rivers are at a tipping point, facing an urgent decision in the coming months.
📲 Learn more & support this year's list: mostendangeredrivers.org?utm_campaign...
Data centers, pollution, logging, and mining – These 10 rivers are at a tipping point, facing an urgent decision in the coming months.
📲 Learn more & support this year's list: mostendangeredrivers.org?utm_campaign...
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Why is a mass shooting that ended in no loss of life getting so much more attention than the large number of shootings that do?
Thoughts and prayers are all the White House officials & press deserve, since that's all they offer the rest of us to deal with gun violence.
Thoughts and prayers are all the White House officials & press deserve, since that's all they offer the rest of us to deal with gun violence.
April 26, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Why is a mass shooting that ended in no loss of life getting so much more attention than the large number of shootings that do?
Thoughts and prayers are all the White House officials & press deserve, since that's all they offer the rest of us to deal with gun violence.
Thoughts and prayers are all the White House officials & press deserve, since that's all they offer the rest of us to deal with gun violence.
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ALMA observations confirm a rare pair of quasars in merging galaxies from the universe’s first billion years, providing insight into early galaxy evolution and supermassive black hole growth. doi.org/hbxfgd
Two blazing quasars caught waltzing into a merger
Astronomers, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have confirmed the existence of a close quasar pair housed in a pair of merging galaxies seen when the universe was less than a billion years old, at a redshift of 5.7. The system, designated J2037–4537, is one of only two confirmed quasar pairs at redshift greater than 5 ever found.
phys.org
April 26, 2026 at 5:30 PM
ALMA observations confirm a rare pair of quasars in merging galaxies from the universe’s first billion years, providing insight into early galaxy evolution and supermassive black hole growth. doi.org/hbxfgd
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It’s like asking Colonel Sanders to watch his mouth when he talks about fried chicken. Like asking Steve Kerr to quiet down about basketball so the experts can talk.
April 15, 2026 at 2:04 AM
It’s like asking Colonel Sanders to watch his mouth when he talks about fried chicken. Like asking Steve Kerr to quiet down about basketball so the experts can talk.
What happens when two supermassive black hole collide?
After 23 years of study, a cosmic merge could occur within the century and the emission of low-frequency gravitational waves should tell us when it happens. nautil.us/two-supermas...
After 23 years of study, a cosmic merge could occur within the century and the emission of low-frequency gravitational waves should tell us when it happens. nautil.us/two-supermas...
Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Cosmic Collision Course
Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Cosmic Collision Course: Astronomers find a pair of super close, supermassive black holes for the first time
nautil.us
April 14, 2026 at 4:28 PM
What happens when two supermassive black hole collide?
After 23 years of study, a cosmic merge could occur within the century and the emission of low-frequency gravitational waves should tell us when it happens. nautil.us/two-supermas...
After 23 years of study, a cosmic merge could occur within the century and the emission of low-frequency gravitational waves should tell us when it happens. nautil.us/two-supermas...
Thorin, a Neanderthal who lived in the Rhone Valley 42,000 years ago, genes shows that his population was genetically isolated from other Neanderthals for 50,000 years. The genetic evidence mirrors tool evidence showing that population did not adopt new technologies. www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction
Slimak et al. report the discovery of a late Neanderthal individual from Grotte Mandrin
in Mediterranean France and its genome. The genome reveals a relatively early divergence
at ∼100,000 years ago w...
www.cell.com
March 26, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Thorin, a Neanderthal who lived in the Rhone Valley 42,000 years ago, genes shows that his population was genetically isolated from other Neanderthals for 50,000 years. The genetic evidence mirrors tool evidence showing that population did not adopt new technologies. www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
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We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
March 23, 2026 at 9:08 PM
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
We will not stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.
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The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.
February 23, 2026 at 12:10 AM
The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.
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Remember, when news outlets first reported that Kash Patel was spending $75,000 of taxpayer money to fly an FBI Gulfstream jet to Milan so he could watch Olympic hockey, the official spokesasshole for the FBI had this to say:
February 23, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Remember, when news outlets first reported that Kash Patel was spending $75,000 of taxpayer money to fly an FBI Gulfstream jet to Milan so he could watch Olympic hockey, the official spokesasshole for the FBI had this to say:
It's Election Day - again - in Alexandria.
Just cast my ballot in the City Council. Have you voted yet? Polls (Beatley library & Chick Armstrong Rec Center) are open until 7pm.
Just cast my ballot in the City Council. Have you voted yet? Polls (Beatley library & Chick Armstrong Rec Center) are open until 7pm.
February 21, 2026 at 4:20 PM
It's Election Day - again - in Alexandria.
Just cast my ballot in the City Council. Have you voted yet? Polls (Beatley library & Chick Armstrong Rec Center) are open until 7pm.
Just cast my ballot in the City Council. Have you voted yet? Polls (Beatley library & Chick Armstrong Rec Center) are open until 7pm.
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“If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted."
The GOP’s “show us your papers” bill Is the latest effort to help Trump take over elections
“If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted"
www.motherjones.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:00 PM
“If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted."
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feels like i should re-post this every few weeks
NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them.
Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...
Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...
February 12, 2026 at 4:17 AM
feels like i should re-post this every few weeks
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NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
February 11, 2026 at 6:28 PM
NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
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Rep. Jayapal: Will you turn to the survivors, who are standing right behind you, and apologize for what your Department of Justice has done?
Pam Bondi: *refuses to answer*
Pam Bondi: *refuses to answer*
February 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Rep. Jayapal: Will you turn to the survivors, who are standing right behind you, and apologize for what your Department of Justice has done?
Pam Bondi: *refuses to answer*
Pam Bondi: *refuses to answer*
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So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...
Retired ICE agent breaks down deadly Minneapolis shooting
YouTube video by CBS Evening News
youtu.be
January 9, 2026 at 7:04 AM
So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...
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Morals, values and leadership.🙌🏾
February 6, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Morals, values and leadership.🙌🏾
Masks off: GOP FEC Commissioner Trey Trainor, who is now running for Congress, admits he “protected” Donald Trump from campaign finance investigations out of “loyalty”
x.com/baylisswagne...
x.com/baylisswagne...
x.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
☑️ first genie wish
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
February 5, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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“President of Peace” just let New START die. It kept US and Russian nukes in check for 15 years. Now there are no limits.
This makes the world less safe. It’s recklessness with the entire planet.
#NewSTART #NuclearRisk
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
apple.news/AHN0twZSDT1a...
This makes the world less safe. It’s recklessness with the entire planet.
#NewSTART #NuclearRisk
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
apple.news/AHN0twZSDT1a...
‘President of Peace’ Trump Just Blew Up a Major Nuclear Weapons Deal — The Daily Beast
This is a dangerous “new start” for the world.
apple.news
February 5, 2026 at 7:19 PM
“President of Peace” just let New START die. It kept US and Russian nukes in check for 15 years. Now there are no limits.
This makes the world less safe. It’s recklessness with the entire planet.
#NewSTART #NuclearRisk
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
apple.news/AHN0twZSDT1a...
This makes the world less safe. It’s recklessness with the entire planet.
#NewSTART #NuclearRisk
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
apple.news/AHN0twZSDT1a...
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Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT ALLOWS CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL MAP INTENDED TO BENEFIT DEMOCRATS
February 4, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT ALLOWS CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL MAP INTENDED TO BENEFIT DEMOCRATS